Prediction of Life Expectancy in Patients with Primary Pulmonary Hypertension. A Retrospective Nationwide Survey from 1980-1990

Internal Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 12-16

  Okada, Osamu ^a   Tanabe, Nobuhiro ^a   Yasuda, Junichi ^a   Yoshida, Yasuhide ^a   Katoh, Kunihiko ^a   Yamamoto, Tsukasa ^a   Kuriyama, Takayuki ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lung transplantation; Multiple logistic analysis; Prognostic factors; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032617453     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.38.12     Document Type: Article

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